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Technical Skills

R
Shiny
RMarkdown
Jekyll
HTML/CSS
CI/CD
AWS
Ubuntu Sys Admin
Docker
PostgreSQL, PostGIS

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Last updated on 2021-03-06.

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François Michonneau

Professional Appointments

Senior Director of Technology

The Carpentries

Remote

Current - 2020

  • I lead the Infrastructure team and directly supervise 6 people
  • Recent projects involved the revision of our Privacy Policies and compliance with GDPR/CCPA, leading the development of new features (email automation) in our internal data management system, and a new version of The Carpentries lesson template.

Curriculum Development Lead

The Carpentries

Remote

2020 - 2018

  • I was responsible for coordinating the community of lesson maintainers and contributed to overseeing the development of 10+ lessons. I led the the publication (via Zenodo) of 40+ official Carpentries lessons. I maintained and developed new features for The Carpentries lesson template.
  • In addition of these responsibilities, I have been managing our technical infrastructure including the migration of all our services to AWS and Docker. I have developed automations, web apps & dashboards (with Shiny), data feeds, and automated reports, to help scale up our operations.
  • I collaborated with researchers to write grant proposals that included funding for The Carpentries to help support the development of our curriculum offering, and secured funding to run and develop our technical infrastructure.

Statistician

CEMAGREF (now INRAE)

Montpellier, France

2006 - 2005

  • I led the statistical analyses of ecological datasets resulting in two scientific publications.




Education

PhD, Zoology

Department of Biology, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, USA

2014 - 2006

  • Dissertation: “Species limits and diversity in the sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)” Advisor: Gustav Paulay

M.S., Ecology, Biodiversity, Evolution

University Pierre & Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University)

Paris, France

2005

  • Thesis: “Post-settlement mortality in scleractinian corals around Moorea island, French Polynesia” Advisor: Mehdi Adjeroud

Maîtrise, Tropical Biology

La Réunion University

Réunion Island

2004

  • Thesis: “Hydroids colonizing artificial reefs in La Possession Bay, La Réunion island” Advisor: Chloé Bourmaud

License, Marine Biology

La Rochelle University

La Rochelle, France

2003

  • Thesis: “Herpetofauna of the French Atlantic coast islands” Advisor: Jean-Marc Thirion

Research Positions

Post-doctoral research fellow, Martindale Lab

The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience

Marineland, FL, USA

2018 - 2015

  • Led research project on plankton biodiversity in Florida.
  • Designed statistical method for species assignment based on DNA sequences.
  • Synthesized current state of knowledge of US marine invertebrate biodiversity by combining millions of occurrence records from public databases (iDigBio, OBIS, GBIF).

Post-doctoral fellow for iDigBio

Florida Museum of Natural History

Gainesville, FL, USA

2015 - 2014

  • Led development of computing training activities.
  • Mentored and reviewed code for R package developed by IT team for the project

Graduate Research Assistant for the iDigBio project

Florida Museum of Natural History

Gainesville, FL, USA

2014 - 2013

  • Assembled NoSQL database of all US natural history collections.

Graduate Research Assistant, Division of Invertebrate Zoology

Florida Museum of Natural History

Gainesville, FL, USA

2013 - 2006

  • Assisted with curation of specimen and data in the collection.
  • DNA barcoding of specimens